Prof. Matthew Paterson

About

Matthew is Professor of International Politics at the University of Manchester. His research approaches climate change through a set of political economy lenses. He has worked variously on the UNFCCC, transnational climate change governance, carbon markets the insurance industry, on the political economy of decarbonisation, and the cultural politics of low-carbon transitions. His current research project explores the contested politics of how shifts to a low carbon society produce novel forms of subjectivity and challenge established ones, and he is currently planning a new project on using Social Network Analysis to understand patterns of global climate governance.

He has recently acted as a Lead Author by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, working on the chapter on international cooperation for the 5th assessment report. He is a past co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics (2008-12, with Jennifer Clapp)